Which path would you take when your allegiance is divided by your morals or bloodline?
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Steel over Blood has been a romhack I’ve taken way too long to work on, if anybody had seen my old journal entries back in 2022 you’d be familiar with my humble beginnings. It never had a public release despite the entries I made about it… until now. The project has mostly been developed using FEBuilder and has been something I have been working on in between college courses. And only recently have I polished enough chapters in order to release something I can be confident to share with the public.
This romhack is a love letter to my introduction to the series, which was the 3ds era, and it also blends a lot of other media I enjoy, as well as nods and references to some people I made friends within the community and memorable experiences I’ve had throughout the series. But it’s not really made exclusively just for fanfare, it’s also my way of expressing my love for writing fictional stories. And with how Fire Emblem is, it offers me a chance to write a library of different characters with different backstories and chemistry between one another.
Story:
The Ulkfold Empire, a once-mighty nation, enjoyed decades of peace with its rival, the Kingdom of Centaurus–until the Empire’s capital was ravaged by a sudden, brutal invasion. The Empire blamed Centaurus for this sudden attack, reigniting a bitter war, and shattering their fragile peace.
Enter Lenora, a young, idealistic lady of House Leonfé who wants nothing more than to prove herself and make a mark in history. But with her homeland ravaged by war, dark truths get uncovered, leaving her confused and questioning her loyalty. The line between steel and blood is far thinner than she imagined.
Her father once told her, ‘When steel clashes, blood will flow. But when blood is spilled, steel will rise.’ It never made sense to her back then, but now, those words haunt her-Steel Over Blood is not just a saying; it’s a warning.
Features:
- 6 Playable chapters, with a planned 20+ chapter total upon completion.
- Every unit has a niche to some extent, and are all viable to use. So basically, there’s no joke units.
- A focus on story and character dialogue over difficult/challenging gameplay.
- Normal is the intended way to play as hard and lunatic are untested, so play at your own risk.
- Fates EXP system.
- Utilizes SkillSys and has a few custom skills added as personal skills for certain units.
- Thieves (called outlaws in my game), assassins, and tricksters use dagger weapons. And daggers replace light magic in my romhack.
- Units follow 3DS style stat spread and calculation.
- Mostly custom-made portraits for the majority of characters in the romhack with some repo portraits used for minor characters, except for a few exceptions.
Before I continue, I want to thank some specific individuals who have been supporting me for so long. Such as HusbandoEmblem (which I do not know if he is around here anymore), Melledoneus (Fire Emblem Genesis), FlamingZelda, Glaceo, BlindArcher, ZessDynamite, Yasako, and of course 7743 for creating FEBuilder. There’s a larger list of people who helped me through this journey of making this hack, and honestly, I just wrote down the people who came to mind as I was writing.
And another thank you to Glaceo for writing this, this guy has probably made 80% of the portraits in my game and I am incredibly lucky to get the chance to work with such an amazing artist:
Feedback/Suggestions
Please send feedback and suggestions in this thread or join the FE Steel Over Blood discord channel!
Credits
Amazing People who helped with development:
- Melledoneus
- HusbandoEmblem
- kafka with no smile
- Contro
- 7743
- FlamingZelda
- Apparoid
- Atlas
- Glaceo
- Olivia
- SteamingTofu
- Fuyu
- PhantomSentine
- UltraxBlade
- Vesly
Commissioned Portraits:
- Glaceo (@Glacoe776)
- ZessDynamite
- BlindArcher (@_TheBlindArcher)
- Yasako
- BuskHusker
- HusbandoEmblem
Gifted Portriats:
Repo Portraits:
- Sphealnuke
- CapibaraInSpace
- LaurentLacroix
- Smokeyguy77
- Wasdye
- XVI
- NICKT
- Narumon
- MeatofJustice
- Pikmin
- flasuban
- Jj09
- Valak
Battle Animations:
- GabrielKnight
- SALVAGED
- Greentea
- Narumon
- Black Mage
- DerTheVaporeon
- Leo_Link
- TBA
- Vilkalizer
- Iscaneus
- eCut
- FEGirls Baeserker
- Blue Druid
- Ayr
- flashuban
- Jj09
- Eldritch
- Pikmin1211
- 7743
- Jey the Count
- Russel Clark
- SteamingTofu
Map Sprites
- Glaceo
- Pikimin
- L95
- flasuban
- Mikey_Seregon
- Narumon
- TBA
- Rexacuse
- Peerless
- Alusq
- Pushwall
- Shin19
- SALVAGED
- Eldritch Abomination
- N426
- Blue Druid
- Unkown
Weapon Icons:
- Beansy
- Jubby
- Zelix
- Zarg
- Zane
- LordGlenn
- Erishkigal
- Celice
- Orihara Saki
- George Reds
- 2WB
Map Textures:
- Zora
- Zoramine Fae
- Atlus
Music:
- Sme
- SaXor_the_Nobody
- Dolkar
- hypergammaspaces
- Faranaja
- Psyche
- RSflame
- Alusq
- MrGreen3339
- Ristar
- Sokaballa
- Cynon
- Sokaballa
- Kascade VGM
Commissioned Music:
- Ristar
Art stuff for the game
Title screen made by Antroprix
by DoinThangs
by Yoshiko
Concept art by BuskHusker
by Mona
by Obsidian_Daddy